People: People, Sep. 13, 1943

Elsie Ferguson, other-worldly beauty of the silent cinema (Peter Ibbetson, with Wallace Reid), first starred on Broadway in 1909, was set for a Manhattan comeback 13 years after she had retired. She will play a wandering house guest in Beyond the Farthest Star, a play Author Rose Franken describes as plotless. Miss Ferguson is now 60.

Sergeant Joe Louis, 29, was knocked down by his old sparring partner, Sergeant George Nicholson, in an exhibition bout for soldiers at Mitchel Field, L.I. Later Sergeant Nicholson protested almost apologetically that he had not really knocked Joe...

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